Thursday 5 September 2013

Generator fumes kills newly-wed couple, one other in Calabar

A newly married couple, who packed
to their house soon after wedding have been
reportedly killed by generator fumes in Ikot Omin
on the outskirts of Calabar, the Cross River State
capital. The couple, Bassey Effiong (27), his wife, Glory
(21) and her younger sister, Emem (16), were said
to have packed to the house yet to be completed
by Bassey. “When he got married, he decided to work on
one of the rooms and moved in, while hoping to
gradually complete the house,” Mike, a neighbour
to the couple told Vanguard.



However, tragedy struck, Sunday night, when the
couple turned on their generating set and placed
it on the corridor close to the room, where they
slept but fume from the generating set was said
to have subsequently gained entry into the room
in large quantity and suffocatded the couple along with Emem, the wife’s younger sister. They were discovered dead several hours later by
a naval officer, David Ekanem, Bassey’s uncle, who
said he went there after he called Bassey’s mobile
number several times without response and on
getting there at 5 pm, Monday, he met the tragic
sight. “I knocked several times on the door but there
was no answer, so I had to force the door open. It
was then I saw my nephew and his wife along
with the young girl lying dead,” the Naval officer
said. Spokesman of the Cross River State Police
Command, Mr Hogan Bassey, said the matter was
reported by the naval officer and the bodies
evacuated to the Infectious Disease Hospital
mortuary, Edgerly Road, Calabar.

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